The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Review || Oscar Madness #64
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
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My review of the 64th Best Picture winner, The Silence of the Lambs.
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Watched your take on it, as promised. While I certainly see your points, I still wasn't a huge fan of the film as a whole (thought it was, admittedly, extremely well-made). When you made your comment about how the film still would have been great even if the whole thing had just been Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster talking the whole time, that's honestly what I would have preferred to see. 😅
Although I wish Terminator 2 had been nominated for Best Picture, the Academy made the right choice with giving one of the greatest films ever made the top award! 🏆
Love this movie. Still think The Exorcist should've won in 73, I don't think The Sting is a better movie.
I agree!
Wonder if this movie inspired Harley Quinn's backstory in Batman: The Animated Series.
It's definitely not 1:1 but the visual of a woman conversing with a violent psychopath in a glass cell might have been on the writers' minds when they were creating that origin story.
A bit off topic, but it never made sense to me why Hopkins won Best Actor instead of Best Supporting Actor. Especially after Heath Ledger won Best Supporting Actor. It just doesn't add up.
On a side note, this is definitely a horror film, not a thriller. It doesn't thrill me, it horrifies me.
I technically agree with you, but it never bothered me in the slightest he won Best Actor. It may not have been his story, but it was definitely his movie.
@@IaMD.B. it doesn't bother me either, it's just one of those "but how?" type of moments
I hope Barbara Streisand will forgive you for not including her movie "The Prince of Tides" when you listed the other four nominees for Best Picture that year -- she's liable to take it the same way she took getting snubbed for a Best Director nomination that same year (LOL!). A number of people bemoaned her exclusion at the Academy Awards ceremony itself. So I find it ironic that you forgot to mention 'Prince" in the video.
This was an ill-fated year in general and would not be the first. It was a milestone that "Beauty and the Beast" was the first animated film nominated ever and the first family film in a long time to be nominated (I think since E.T., but before that, "Star Wars" and "Oliver" - not a frequent occurrence). While I don't believe that the award for Best Picture needs to go by default to a nominee that ANYONE can see (family film vs.... say.... horror film). but is IS telling when the first animated movie to be nominated loses to the most violent, gory, movie of the year (if not in a while). It would happen again when "Braveheart" beat out "Babe" just four years later. After that you might have the "token" family film nominated each year (like the occasional Pixar film) but they have no chance of winning these days. Here was a clear turning point for the Academy Awards, and Hollywood made its choice as which type of film to honor.
I agree - I can watch just the scenes between Hannibal and Clarisse over and over again - but that escape scene is awesome as well. The closing scene stays with you and leaves you with the ominous sense that "he's still out there somewhere, blending into the crowd!" Clarisse has anyting but a "happy ending" here. Very ominous! "Silence of the Lambs" is a worthy winner for Best Picture and one that has stood the test of time since its release. "JFK" outlived its "conspiracy theory" appeal, people rarely think of "Bugsy" and NO ONE remembers "The Prince of Tides" (case in point: see opening paragraph - LOL). Only "Beauty" has lasted alongside "Silence" and, in retrospect, it's a shame that this was another one of those rare years at the Academy Awards that should have ended in a well-balanced tie for Best Picture.
I didn't mention "Tides" cause I haven't seen it:) I've seen the other 3
Poor Barb! 🤣
1:58 It WOULD'VE been cool had it been the first step for the Academy to appreciate the medium of animation more. :P
But we know how things went. Two more Best Picture nominations for Pixar, some straight up racist remarks by one of the judges (Calling Song of the Sea and The Tale of Princess Kaguya "Chinese fucking things"), Black Panther being chosen over Into the Spider-verse and a general lack of giving a shit.
Yeah, I agree, since Beauty and the Beast there should've been way more than 2 nominations. And the two that were nominated didn't deserve it in my opinion.
The Lion King in 1994, Spirited Away in 2001, Ratatouille in 2007, and of course, Spider-verse in 2018, all should've been nominated for Best Picture in those respective years.
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Beauty and the Beast should have Won!